Maryland's Light Rail is William Donald Schaefer's Great White Elephant that continues to fail.  According to the Baltimore Sun, the MTA is closing light rail between North Ave and Hunt Valley, and restricting service south of North Ave to single car trains, due to even more problems with the wheels.  When will anyone in Soddom on the Severn realize that a) there is nothing "light" in Light Rail and b) this project has been an abject failure from the beginning.

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I want to make one thing clear:  if the Government of the United States of America decides to provide a bailout to "Old Detroit", I will NEVER purchase another product made by Ford, General Motors, or Chrysler ever again in my life.  And given my relatively young age of 37, that probably means at least another 4-5 vehicles of the course of my lifetime.  I wouldn't take a product from any of those three if you gave it to me for free if you pass this bailout.  Because this liberal fascist bailout fantasy -- and this is fascism in its purest, most academic form -- will do absolutely nothing to fix the endemic structural defects of those three companies.  And what is worse, every politician from the UP to Anacostia Flats knows it.

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Does anyone remember the radio show "America's Top 40" with Casey Kasem?  When I was growing up in Parkville -- before the big move to da 'Bury during Christmas of '84 -- I would listen to Casey Kasem every Sunday afternoon after church on B104.3.  And my favorite part of the show was the long distance dedication, because they were always syrupy and sad and sweet and, frankly, funny.

And given the performance of the market today, I have decided to write my own long distance dedication to 538 of my favorite people:  Congress, The President, Hank Paulson, and Ben Bernanke. 

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We've heard that phrase a lot these last couple of weeks as the debate over the "Bogus Bailout Bill of 2008" raged on.  In fact, we've heard it back into the spring, as we saw the first invesment banks start swirling the drain.  Some banks -- according to the "professionals" -- are just "too big to fail".

If they are too big to fail, isn't it possible they are just too big?

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who heads a House of Representatives facing a 9% approval rating -- even lower than the President -- has blown it big time.  She wasn't able to deliver 40% of her own party in a vote that she and others had tried to portray as the absolute most important vote in sixty years.

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If Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD 6) votes for the giveaway bailout bill, I may decide to run for Congress in 2010.

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Hank Paulson is desperate.  Since the Republicans in Congress have decided that it is better to do the right thing rather than anything, Hank Paulson was reportedly compelled to drop down to one knee before Nancy Pelosi to beg for her help in pushing the Bailout Bullshit through Congress.  Bill Medley must be shaking his head.

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Fat Jack Murtha, D-Johnstown, PA  is getting sued.  The Congressman -- a Marine turned ratfucking bastard and unindicted co-conspirator in ABSCAM -- is being sued by one of the "Haditha" Marines he accused of "cold blooded murder".  Without evidence, without trial, without jury, Fat Jack Murtha abandoned his fellow Marines, and turned his back on Semper Fidelis. What is latin for "Always a Cocksucker"?

More here.

By the way, let us also not forget that Fat Jack is one of the fattest cats in the earmark game, going so far to hold an annual "party" to fund his campaign war chest in Crystal City for Defense Contractors.

That's clean government you can believe in!

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I thought the Palin pick was brilliant.  But the move to "suspend campaigning" in order to debate one bad idea after another is downright stupid....

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Joe Biden is an asshat. “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the pri...

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